Montgomery County schools leaders are worried.
Their school system — Maryland’s largest, with about 160,000 students — is trying to comply with a state mandate to expand prekindergarten. It needs help from private providers, but nowhere near enough have signed up. The county fears it will end up violating the requirements of the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, a landmark education reform law...
...Across Maryland, public school districts are racing to adapt to the decade-long Blueprint, which the state says calls for increasing annual spending on education to more than $3.8 billion when the law is fully implemented. The law requires districts to boost teacher pay and special-education funding, emphasizes aid for students who live in poverty, and seeks a more diverse and qualified teaching corps...
https://moco360.media/2024/01/04/fight-on-first-day-back-from-winter-break-at-bethesda-chevy-chase-high-school/
ReplyDelete“violence has no place in our schools or community.”
Blueprint pillars include high-quality and diverse teachers
ReplyDeleteCollege and career readiness, more resources for students
For in order to be successful, governance and accountability
All speed ahead and damn the key question of affordability.
Pillars? Says who? No oversight. No way to ensure that anything in the "pillars" is ever implemented. No way to ensure that any of that money ever reaches classrooms.
DeleteQuoting the WAPO article:
Delete"In addition to early-childhood education, the other Blueprint pillars include"
Nonetheless there is description of their foundations.